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In spite of illness, in spite of even the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual state of disintegration if one is unafraid of change. Insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll..."
Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been... Fyodor Dostoevsky
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. Jean-Paul Sartre
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us..."
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... Arthur C. Clarke
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . Elizabeth George
George Orwell quote: "The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. George Orwell
Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now. Salman Rushdie
our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature. this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas of the past and future only transmit this mind. beyond this mind there’s no buddha anywhere. but deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the buddha. they keep searching outside. they never stop invoking buddhas or worshipping buddhas and wondering where is the buddha? don’t indulge in such illusions. just know your mind. beyond your mind there’s no other buddha. the... Bodhidharma
Do you remember Vlek, who was such a good sheepdog that she and Jakob alone could drive a whole flock past you at the counting-post? Do you remember how Vlek grew old and sickly and could not hold down her food, and how there was no one to shoot her but you, and how you went for a walk afterwards because you did not want anyone to see you cry? J. M. Coetzee
I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle. Toni Morrison
Don DeLillo quote: "It is all falling indelibly into the past."
It is all falling indelibly into the past. Don DeLillo
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten. Milan Kundera
Mae West quote: "Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will..."
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. Mae West
The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming. Oscar Wilde

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